20 day work schedule for Ford is false

March 8, 2001
Variety
by Bob Fleming

The notion that Harrison Ford is getting paid $25 million for 20 days of work on the Intermedia-financed Fox drama ``K-19: The Widowmaker'' made a swell front page cover of the New York Post, and then got picked up by media around the world. The only problem, said Ford's longtime rep Patricia McQueeney, is that the story is completely false.

He's getting paid that much, for sure, but McQueeney denied he was giving part-time commitment.

``It's a total fabrication,'' said McQueeney. ``Harrison has been working on the script and casting for three months, he travelled to London with the director to meet with Tom Stoppard before he came in and did a rewrite. The shoot is four and one-half months long, and he's working every single day.''

Ford, she said, will also be involved in postproduction chores and will beat the promotional drum when the film gets released. ``He likes to be fully involved, which is the reason he usually doesn't do more than one movie a year.''

Ford's hands-on approach during the scripting phase was well-documented on ``Traffic.'' Even though he didn't wind up playing the drug czar, Ford asked for many changes in the character, and they prompted Michael Douglas to take the role.

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